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For all things Teisco. AND those sweet vintage japanese guitars with those vintage pickups made by Teisco that no guitar on the planet can match. if you have never heard em, you wouldnt understand. share,buy, sell, beg, whatever, have fun.

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here's some cool teisco links

http://www.mark-cole.co.uk/teisco/ great info and id your guit .http://www.myrareguitars.com/1960guitars.html some great guits here .http://guitar.webinjp.com/catalog_guitar.htm vintage teisco catalogueshttp://www.vintageguitar.com/1745/teisco-guitars-part-i/ teisco guitars part 1http://www.vintageguitar.com/1746/teisco-guitars-part-ii/ part 2

Discussion Forum

Cutting pickguards / using vinyl

Started by Where's Uranus?. Last reply by Paul Craig Mar 23, 2020. 7 Replies 0 Likes

So I have a 3 part question, I guess.1. What's the best way to design a custom pickguard2. How do I cut said pickguard3. I'm planning to use an old LP for the pickguard, any specific hints?This is…Continue

Short Jacks

Started by Where's Uranus?. Last reply by Paul Craig Mar 20, 2020. 10 Replies 0 Likes

What's a good replacement jack socket for an instrument with the jack socket mounted flush on the pickguard?In many cases the rout isn't deep enough for a regular Switchcraft, and most of these…Continue

64 Kiawa setup?

Started by mugs. Last reply by the anonymous pick Jan 31, 2020. 2 Replies 0 Likes

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Do you want to build your own Teisco-Copy?

Started by Hudson Wolf. Last reply by Paul Craig Jul 24, 2019. 14 Replies 1 Like

Some words about me and my drawings. As a hobbist I have built CBGs, electric basses and guitars for the last six years. Unfortunately it's difficult for me to do it now, because I'm working for the…Continue

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Comment by the anonymous pick on April 5, 2015 at 1:52pm: in canada , the "tupip" / teiscos were branded "checkmate " .. they may have a different scale than the US " standard " .

Comment by JIm Trussler on April 5, 2015 at 1:42pm: Thanks. I have found a tulip body but no neck or hardware so wondered what the standard was. Gonna be fun....

Comment by the anonymous pick on April 5, 2015 at 1:34pm: jim .. tulips were anywhere from 24 ,, 24 3/4.... to 25 ish .. and a couple baritone models .. and basses too . so its a crapshoot

Comment by Where's Uranus? on April 5, 2015 at 1:15pm: Yeah, I have seen that diagram. Those rockers look like DPST themselves. I'm thinking pickup selectors, parallel series switch and dual volumes, but I like neck pickup usually full on, with the tone rolled off, and bridge at a lower clean level with tone on.

Maybe I should do a neck tone and a bridge volume?

Comment by the anonymous pick on April 5, 2015 at 1:14pm

Comment by JIm Trussler on April 5, 2015 at 1:12pm: What was the scale length of a Tulip?

Comment by the anonymous pick on April 5, 2015 at 12:56pm: the dpdt tosses a monkey wrench in the works , but this is where stuff goes without it . if that helps .

cant find an all inclusive diagram .

Comment by Where's Uranus? on April 5, 2015 at 12:36pm: So I have two rocker switches a DPDT and a coupe of pots, not sure how best to wire it.

Comment by Where's Uranus? on March 22, 2015 at 2:43pm: Yours look like they have bigger polepiece screws, mine are tiny little roundheads, I wouldn't dare try and adjust them.

Comment by Dave Lynas on March 22, 2015 at 2:33pm: Thanks Pick, Blind Lemon, nice old Teiscos. I like their low profile. No big hole necessary. My black foils have low readings. 3.5 to 5.2 or so. I like clean sound and these have it. Getting harder to find cheap. I see there are new retro Teisco style pups that are reasonable. I have two but haven,t tried them yet.